Schedule 76. StuTS

The German prospective stehen vor ‘stand in front of’ NP construction is used to express that a subject referent will participate in a future eventuality, if nothing intervenes. In this light verb construction, the NP complement of the preposition vor denotes the prospective eventuality. While Fleischhauer & Gamerschlag (2019) and Fleischhauer et al. (2019) restrict the position of the noun within this NP complement to the semantic type of Change of State (CoS) nouns, a further synchronous corpus study by Fleischhauer (2023) rejects this hypothesis. Concluding from the respective study, Fleischhauer argues that non-CoS nouns are acceptable as well, if they are licensed by context. He proposes that the eventuality has to be of current relevance to some individual participating in the eventuality or being affected by it.

Fleischhauer’s study includes some historical data, however, there is no mention of any possible diachronic change of noun preferences. In my bachelor thesis, I therefore carried out a corpus analysis using the Reichstagsprotokoll corpus (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache 2024), which includes data between 1867 and 1942, to investigate whether the construction underwent any diachronic change. A further aim was to integrate potential other noun groups found within the data into the current relevance approach. I will describe the annotation process for the data and discuss my results concerning the frequency distribution of noun types over time and the integration of an additional noun group.

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Day: 2024-11-22
Start time: 15:00
Duration: 00:30
Room: 00A03 CNMS
Track: Syntax
Language: en

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